LatinaLista — For all their outreach to Latinos, the GOP must think that compromising on immigration reform — and to this point, no one knows exactly what their definition of compromise entails — is all that is needed to win Latinos over to their side. But they're not looking at the bigger...

LatinaLista — Talk of modernizing the voting process always crops up around major elections. Unfortunately, it's more talk of what can be done than doing it but one area that has gotten a boost from today's technology is voter registration. A handful of states are offering their citizens the option of registering...

LatinaLista — The yardstick used by Latino leaders to prove we have politically 'arrived' has been Latino voter registration and turnout at the polls. Unfortunately, that same measure of accomplishment is being used to prove to the Supreme Court that the Voting Rights Act has outlived its usefulness. Today, the Supreme Court...

LatinaLista — The news for the Republican Party just keeps getting worse. A new Pew poll underscores by just how much public confidence has waned in the GOP. According to the poll: 62% of the public says the GOP is out of touch with the American people, 56% think it is not...

LatinaLista — If there was an overriding lesson from last year's GOP primary campaigns, it was that conservative views on abortion and planned parenthood haven't changed from the beginning of Christianity. In fact, this issue, more than any other, is the original "zero tolerance" stand where intolerance, yet again, trumps common sense....

LatinaLista — It wasn't but days after the presidential showdown between Obama and Romney that everyone — from media political analysts to veteran GOP politicians — admitted, if not somewhat grudgingly or incredulously, that Obama's win could be credited in a very large part to the Latino turnout. ...

LatinaLista — Among the 23 Executive Actions that President Obama signed into law today was one in which he would issue a Presidential Memorandum to: "require federal law enforcement to trace guns recovered in criminal investigations." It appears to be among the least threatening of the actions for opponents of the President's...

LatinaLista — By now, everyone knows that the GOP leadership so turned off most Latinos that the overwhelming support lavished on Obama by Latino voters in last month's election was a direct consequence of the anti-immigrant, anti-poor, anti-gay, anti-DREAMer, anti-fill-in-the-blank rhetoric that dominated the primary and fed into the presidential campaign. [caption...

LatinaLista — Now that Latinos have gained credibility in the eyes of mainstream media and Main Street USA by making the difference in Obama's re-election, Latinos need to start the real work of reclaiming the Latino image. In the aftermath of the election when Sunday morning network roundtable discussions were busy dissecting,...

LatinaLista — It's finally time to put the Sleeping Giant myth to bed. Though not all eligible Latino voters turned out to vote — 11.2 million, according to a Pew Hispanic Center analysis — it was still enough to give President Obama the winning edge and marked, for the first time, a legitimate...

LatinaLista — Those who were paying attention to the media last week, in the aftermath of the election celebration by the Democrats and the forehead-slapping by the Republicans, noticed that the next generation of Latinos, both Republicans and Democrats, aren't waiting around anymore to be invited to the proverbial political table. [caption...

LatinaLista — On election night, the realization that Latinos were fulfilling their political destiny was a public dawning that triggered observations by mainstream pundits ranging from almost gleeful — "This was a demographic shellacking" — Chuck Todd of NBC/MSNBC to downright insulting — “The white establishment is now the minority,” FOX News'...

LatinaLista — If there is one crystal clear revelation about the Latino electorate from election night polling data, it's that the overriding sentiment among the majority of Latino voters is that the GOP does not share their values — anymore. Poll data underscoring this reality is repeatedly surfacing in analysis after analysis....

LatinaLista — News reports show President Obama speaking to rallies today in a raspy voice on the verge of laryngitis. Other news reports say former Gov. Romney is now using tele-prompters at his rallies to avoid making mistakes due to his nonstop campaigning. If we think we are tired of this continual...

LatinaLista — Recently, it was made known that the group of international election watchers from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) were warned off of observing Texas polls by the state's attorney general threatening to arrest any of the watchers if they came within 100 feet of the polls....

LatinaLista — Regular readers of Latina Lista know that I always write about politics and the impact of policies on the Latino community. I do that — not because I'm so compulsive obsessive that I feel I need to write about these issues but because I feel I have to. [caption id="attachment_21279"...

LatinaLista — Politico posted a piece entitled Biden: We're 'breaking our neck' on immigration reform. The piece isn't all that interesting. It really just quotes Biden as reiterating why Latinos should vote for the Obama-Biden ticket — that an Obama-Biden win would send a clear message to the GOP that Democrats have...

LatinaLista — The warnings have been non-stop — Latinos won't turn out to vote or Latinos won't turn out in any greater number than 2008. Forget that voter registration rates are up among Latinos in four states that report by ethnicity, according to Pew Hispanic. There is not yet any nationwide data...

LatinaLista — Just how divided has this election become? Well, it's become so divisive that one "Red" state has decided to challenge the international community over it. Earlier this week, it was made known that more than 40 parliamentarians from Europe and Central Asia, representatives of the Organization for Security and Co-operation...